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It includes storage buildings and simple houses. The royalty area, a sector for the nobility, is a group of houses located in rows over a slope; the residence of the amautas (wise people) was characterized by its reddish walls, and the zone of the ñustas (princesses) had trapezoid-shaped rooms. The Monumental Mausoleum is a carved statue with ...
A hut is a dwelling of relatively simple construction, usually one room and one story in height. The design and materials of huts vary widely around the world. Roundhouse: a house built with a circular plan. Broch: a Scottish roundhouse. Trullo: a traditional Apulian stone dwelling with a conical roof. Igloo.
Temporary structures – Quonset hut, Nissen hut, prefabricated home. Underground – Underground living, rock-cut architecture, monolithic church, pit-house. Modern low-energy systems – Straw-bale construction, earthbag construction, rice-hull bagwall construction, earthship, earth house. Various styles – Longhouse.
The NestHouse tiny house was designed and built by Jonathan Avery of Tiny House Scotland, Linlithgow UK. In Brazil, Tiny Houses Brazil was the first mini-house factory in the country, operating out of a shed on a farm property in Porangaba, São Paulo. The company develops projects and builds mini-houses on wheels.
Bungalow. Though real estate agents may use the term to reference any small house, true bungalows are one- or one-and-a-half stories with two or three bedrooms. They span a total of 1,000 to 2,000 ...
This list of house styles lists styles of vernacular architecture – i.e., outside any academic tradition – used in the design of houses. African
Strawberry box houses refers to a style of homes built during World War II [1] and into the 1950s to 1960s and found throughout Canada. The style uses a square or rectangular foundation and named due to the similarity with boxes used to hold strawberries. This style has also been called the "Simplified Cape Cod", or "Victory Houses" in the case ...
Ranch (also known as American ranch, California ranch, rambler, or rancher) is a domestic architectural style that originated in the United States. The ranch-style house is noted for its long, close-to-the-ground profile, and wide open layout. The style fused modernist ideas and styles with notions of the American Western period of wide open ...